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Why stay aboard and wail ? * What wonder standing there he seemed So beautiful and bright; Who couldn't, while around him beamed That lovely Titian light T | Ilis pow-wow with his father I % j Regard as tempting fate; If he declined to early die, Why stay there and dilate? " Pa, can't you speak a little piece*? ' Just try a sneeze or cough. My nearest kin, kin you release, Or are you, father, oft"? " . And while his father slept below Tln? boy he never stirred; One of a ."race who never "go" -r? Unless they get the "word." * ~ tie called ulqud, "am 1 allowed Your leave to leave? Your son Stands tire you know, but don't you crowd The thing; I'm toasted done. - ^ / Of course I'd ilo what you desire, If you laid on the shelf; 1 burn with ardor?but this fire, You know how it is yourself. -'Speak, father, I would be released; I list your loving tones." He knew not that his ja, deceased,. Had gone to Davy Jones. Upon his brow he felt the heat Yet Biood serene and caltn, ' * With only now and then a bleat,~ Like Mary's little luuib. 1 The yards and spars did burn andVnap Alt in the wildest way; >*?t a shroud was left the chop, And he the only stay. There enme n bursting burning peal? | Good gracious! Pretty soon. Hoy, ship, and anchor, Aug and keel, Went up in a balloon. " And when this sound burst o'er the tide, The boy! oh, where was he! Ask of the winds for none beside Stayed long enough to see. With IDhSt ana liClUl, miu pvunvu UUI, That acted well enough, The sickest thing thai j erished there Was that young sailor muff. 1 , No w, boys, don't take a cent of stoekj In Cas-a-bi-an-ea; Tiie spots from such a son they'd knock, Our Young A-mer-i-ca. Selected. Story. ALTHEA'S BIRTHDAY. BY AMANDA T. JONES. * _ | u Let me see," said Althea Day; " there are Mary Simpson, and Arthur, her brother, Ellen Horton, the threo King girls, and their brothers, Tonmiie Strang, Julia Lacy,' Maria Hubbard, and Allen Bartoo; they | make twelve, and that will be about as ma^ nv as can eniov themselves I think. I do j ^ "it w ?r not want my birthday party to be a mob. " You have forgotten Josephine' Mills," suggested her mother quietly. 1 have no intention of inviting her. Bc*idfes, X presume she couldn't come, for it is jSdfotrdaf, and on that day she keeps up Stairs-wftiie bier mother washes out all the dress she has in the world so she can go to jSunday-school. Nobody makes anything of Josey, though she's good c lough in her fray. - So Afiie Day put her bonnet over Iter brown eurls and went to aebool, thinking all the way about her party of twelve and thegrand dinner her mother would prepare. *We- will have games, I suppose," she thought, " though I think conversation more dignified; and I'll practice all my music to-night. Perhaps Marsh King will bring his clarionet?I'll soeak to him about it." \ Just then Alhe raised her eves and saw ? ... r- n 1 Josephine Mills leading her uttie aeiormea brother toward the ichool-house. " How good she ii to him," thought Allie. " If he was my brother I should be so mortified! They say h* father struck him in a o|runken fit with a g^at stick of wood, and aearl/broke his bacV. I'm sure I'm sorry for him, but he is aa fretful as he can be. All the same, Josey take pare of him night end by day. "W\afr a dull life \ she must lead. I wonder if she ever went to a party in all her life. I am sure she never did, and very likely never will." A little thought crept iuto Allies mind that Josey might receive an invitation to one party at least, but she tried to excuse herself by thinking that the only dress could not possibly be washed and ironed in time for that birthday feast. Miss Morton opened the bible as the last scholar settled himself in his place, and read the fourteenth chapter of Luke. Not a line did she hear?so full was her mind of the evening party?till by chance she looked toward the teacher and caught the words: "When thou inakest a dinner or a supper call not thy friends nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbors. Lest they also bid thee again und a recompense be made. "lint when thou makest a feast call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind." The color flew all over Allie's face. " It 99 *1 ? u T enlnr?ffliA IS true, IQOU^Ilt ftllUj umi x ovivvwv? v..w very girls to help me eat my birthday dinner who will invite me to see them when they give a party. That would be a recompense surely; aud I believe I should have been quite willing to liuvo invited Josephine if I hadn't known she never could invite me in turn. 'The poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind:' Uow Elien llorton and Julia Lacy would laugh if I should ask Josey and her deformed brotfier, and Peter Henry, the one legged Scotch boy, and Mark Liverwore, who has only one eye, and saws wood for a living! Pshaw t what a birthday party that would be !" Allie took up her reader and went into her class. Joscy stood next to her, and she could not help but notice how tired and pale the poor girl looked. " I know," thought Allie, " her father staggered home last night just as we were leaving school, and all the boys laughed to sec him. I remember now that Josey burst out crying, and ran home across the field, rather than hear them ridicule him. "The King girls laughed too?hateful things! I presume if I should really iuvite Josey all the rest would snub her just as xi -1 - -An.,) or.fl flint irrmhi be a?ree IIIU}' UU ill otnuvij uuu v....v .v.. ..... 0 lie!" - * '*i * "The poor, the maimed, the blind!"? Flow these words followed Althca Day from class to class, from study to play, and back again to study. For some reason her invitations, which she had meant to give at recess, remained untcndered. " It is four days to Saturday'" she thought; "aud there is really no hurry." "What it was I cannot say, but the more Allie looted at Josey that day, the more she liked her; and when school was out at night she astonished the dm okay's daughtor by I walking with her, and actually taking the I other hand of Willie, the little deformed boy. "It is too pleasant to go right home," said i Allie; "let us go to the bank of the crock bank and get some raspberries." "I am afraid mother will need'me," said | JoScy; but Willie was so pleased with the idea, that she yielded, and the three climbed and struck off through the woods, pleasantly chatting as school irirls will. It surpassed her how lady-like and "agreeable Jospj^was. All her shyness and timidity vanished, and she had so many interesting things to say thai Allie nearly forgot what they had conic for. " Here we aro nt the Twenty," suid Wih lie, at least meaning the "Twenty Mile Greek." Now I want some berries." There was -a charming water-fall, thirty feet down from where they were standing, and the long rays of the evening snn glanced over its silvery mists and struck them into wonderful shimmering rainbows. Oh. those rainbows! Allie had just stepped to the edge of the steep bank, where two or three raspberry bushes grew out of a cleft in the rocks; when she caught sight of them she leaned a little further to soc them more clearly, s.ipped on the moss, caught at the thorny boughs, swung clear of the bank, and fell half way down to the foot of the fall, dragging the bush with her. She just heard Josey's great cry of fright, and then knew -* ' *" -i.- i.? notmng uiore uu sue came lu uui iwiisw when Josey was carrying her up the bank a little way down the creek. A very hard struggle had Josey just then. Her small, round arms were stralued with their burden-, aud her breath came in short, quick gasps, as if a feather's weight more had beeu too much. u Put me down," said Allie; " I can walk," and then fainted again. Step by step, rod by rod, did Josey toil along with her burden. It was a wc iry half mile to Mr. Day's, but she reached there just as the last red ray flashed through the top of the great elm at the gate. Mrs. Day ran out into the yard to meet her, and took Allie in her arms: but she turned back as she saw her daughter open her eyes an i smile, to kiss Josey, with all a mother's gratitude shining in her sweet eyes. That kiss would have paid for even a greater service, Josey thought, and went home, not altogether of broken heart, though she knew that her young friend had a broken arm, and must suffer from it for weeks. . You think Allio had no birth-day party after all ? Well, yes. Wlicn Saturday morning cauie she called her mother and had a long talk with her. There were tears in Mrs. Day's eyes wlicu she went way from the bedside, but her face shono with as sweet a smile as ever brightened {^mother's ! countenance. "AlJic must have her party," she said to her husband; " we'll have Bridget Flanagan come over and help Lizzie get dinner, and George must carry out the invitations. ITcrc is a list of the guests?there will only be five or six. u Do you not think company will excite her too much ? asked Mr Day. "I Relieve not," said the mother; and her heart is especially set upon having Josephine Mills-here. Now that poor girl has but one dress and Allie asks if she may not ,9end her the blue muslin dress I rnjjde last week. I think if yap tflkp it, Joscy will ' understand that it is not a charity, but a lit tie gift of friendship. So Mr. Day walked away with the dress, but lost his road strangely, and only found it again. again after he had visited Harris' shoe store, Mrs. Wilder's Milliner's shop, and Holmes' shawl room. Dut who were invited to Althea Day't birthday party? Not by any means Julia Lacy, the King girls, Tommy Strang, and the rest, but I'eter llenry, who had a limt amputated a year before, after the falling ol that piece of timber at Widow Lake's barn raising; Mark Livcrmore, who sawed wood faithfully from morning till night to give h.s old grandmother an easy life and plenty to cat; Sallio Lorcy, who was such a dwarf you could have stood her under your amis? any one of you over twelve years old; af.d Jane Kice, who was so hunch-backed, you would want to shut your eyes if she came in ? ,1 your way; tnen, 01 course, muio iuiud uhu Joaey. Prof. Zimmerman, who resided next door and played the piano, and flute, and keybugle, and violin?and for aught I "know, the cornet, harp and psaltery?came in and made every wall of the house reverberate with his melodies. Miss Morton, who just dropped in to see how Allie was, threw ofl ,hcr bonnet and made herself charming, telling all manner of fairy stories, and singing songs that made the children luugh and cry all at once. The dinner ? Ah, yes! I had nearly forgotten that. It was such a feast as Josey, Willie, Jane, Sallie, Mark and Peter had never had before. The chicken pie was certainly as big as the little dwarf that was served up at the King of England's d nncr, in fact, it could almost have held Sallie Lo; rey herself; and the puddings, raspberries, sugar cakes, ice cream, and Charlotte Russe wero all as delicious as mortal hands could make them. Rfcramre! Before niirht every one of the O" t w twelve whom Allie hud thought of inviting came in to inquire about her broken arm, and once in they staid, and staying, were ai merry and kind and altogether friendly to the wood-jwwyer,* the*hunch-backed orphan, tho drunkard's children, the dwarf, as they among themselves. ' I shall have a party myself," said Ellen Horton, "as soon as Allie's arm is well, and every one here must como." " When thou makest a feast call tho poor, the maimed; the lame and the blind." Home and Health. Miscellany. Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. The Woman's Rights Movement?Pro. parations for a |taid on Congress. ? W^yf^CiTON, Sept. 4. The loading>?*5'of the country will make a bold deprarfluupon Congress for recognition as soon as it assembles, and wili send here thc^/foremost advocates of' their theories, Woman,s rights, national prohibition of the " x?(UAAAtvn Iflnn nf I r/?/1 in liquor irautu, mm mo i?vugmi'ivu v* uv? ... tbc Constitution," are all moving advance guards hitherward, and reconnoitering foi position. Prof. Taylor Lewis, who leads the movement in favor of a national religion, will make a flying visit here early in the session. II half dozen delegations of prohibitionists have made arrangements to come, iljd last, though far from least, the advocates of woman's suffrage will maintain here an able and determined lobby throughout the whole of the session. The leaders of this latter movement have prepared for a vigorous onslaught upon all the branches of the Government at once They claim to havo substantially won the Executive, as woman's rights are now full) recognized in the executive departments; bul the effort in this direction will be to secure the appointment of sotre woman to a promineut executive position?at least to the headship of a bureau. Upon Congress the main pressure will b< brought to bear. The surprising vote it] the House of Representatives upon the mo tion to strike the word "male" out of tin section of the District of Columbia billregu lating suffrage has unduly excited the hopes of the sanguine and impressible ladies wht lead the movement, or has at least giver them an opportunity of impressing uninform cd friends of the movement with the notior that the new doctrine has now a fair chancr of being recognized by the National Govern incut. The case for (lie courts is already prepar cd, and two suits at law for damages havr been entered against certain registers ani commissioners of election for refusing t< register or allow to vote certain ladies wh( in May last applied to them for that purpose The suit against the registers is brought b} Mrs. Sarah J Spencer, and that against tin commissioners of election by Sarah E. Web ster. Messrs. ll-ddle and Miller have beer retained as counsel for the plaintiffs in thest causes, and, by consent of parties, the tria in the Circuit Court has been waived, ant the cases are set down for argument at th< coming general term of the Supreme Cour of this District, which begins it term on th< liotli inst. as yet no appearance is eniera by the defendants. Should the decisioi there be adverse, the cases will be carried a onca to the Supreme Court of tho Uuite< States, and an effort, made to have them ad vanccd on the calendar so as to be heard thi winter. The. argument in favor of the right, whicl will be^urged before the general term, i substantially this: Tho fourteenth amend ment declares that "all persons born o naturalized in the United States are subjec to the jurisdiction thereof, arc citizens of tin United .States and of*the States whcrcii they reside." Women being persons, thus be come, by birth or naturalization, citizens o the United States and of Constitution it i declared that "the citizens of each State shal be entitled to the rights and immunities o the citizens of the several States," and tin fourteenth amendment forbids auy State b "make or euforcc any law which shall abridge the privilogcsor immunities of citizens o \ the United Sates." That these constitutional "privileges and immunities" include* , suffrage was decided in the" Circuit Court of I the District of Columbia many years ago^ and, remaining unquestioned to this day, iff , to be regarded as a decided principle of the court. Whatever fallacies may exist ill this i argument, it is in substanco the one which i will be relied upon in the coming argument. L There will, however, be a technical diffi> culty in procuring a decision of any appellate f tribunal upon theso cases as they now stand. As neither the Judges nor commissioners of election entered an appearance in the suit, i Judgment by default has been taken against ' them, and the ordinary method of proceeding would be too numerous for a jury to 83 the damages which the ladies had differed in the ddnial of suffrage alleged in i their declaration. The case having been certified to the general term under these circumstances, it is difficult to see how that court can make any decision at all in tne case, and with out a decision of the district general term it will be impossible to carry the ease to the Supreme Court of the United States. Legal acumen may, however dis> cover an unbeaten path for this purpose, i "While the question is before the Excutive, r Congress, or the Supreme Court, a grand demonstration will be made by a Woman's : Rights Convention, which will meet on the 10th of January at the Young Men's Christian Association building. Mrs. Victoria Woodhnll will keep open house during the whole winter, and thus make a social ?-and political centre, from whence will radiate I the ideas that vivify tho movement, and where will be arranged the demonstrations that will, i the sanguine among its friends believe, l -eventuate in its success. i It is expected that Miss Anthony, Mrs. i Beechcr Hooker, Mrs. Paulino Wright, I Ernestine L. flbse, Mary Seslin Gage, Miss Cozzens, and others will be here during no j. inconsiderable portion of the time, while the active support of Senator Carpenter,. General Butler, George W. Julian, and others is relied upon to support the movement. , K. The Burning of Point-A-Pitre. I Recent private advices from Pointa-Pitre, j the capital of Gaudaloppc, ,in the French i West Indies, give some particulars of the extent of the conflagration already reported by i cable. The city was built on a peninsula in form not unlike the letter U, with the right arm slightly distorted, The bend of the letter will fairly represent the quays on the west, the right*arm on the sooth, and the left arm on the west. On the southeast and northeast there are marshes and hillocks, "and between them the Faubourg d'Abintcs. Theso arc separated from the main city by 1 the Yatable Canal. The two main streets 1 are Rue des Abimcs, which corresponds to 1 our Erondway, and Rue Grande, which crosses it at right angles. There arc twenty1 one blocks, of which sixteen have been totally 1 destroyed. The quarters known as the "New City" in the southeast were saved; it includes the theatre and the Place dc la 1 Victoirc. It consists of small woodon build? ings. The corresponding quarter in the 1 northeast, called "La Petite Terre, was a " badiy built section of the city. It has been > totally destroyed. The hospital, the court' house, and the church were saved. Tho 1 bank, treasury, and custom-house wcro des! troyed. The disaster would have been "complete if the bank had not bceri able to re1 commence immediately its operations. The ' safe was found uninjured in the cellars. The inhabitants arc of course engaged in 1 discussing prospect of reconstruction, but it is feared the money required will be want1J ing. Of course it is tuspected that this ! calamity is due to incendiarism, but tho dc' tails are still wanting. The city was destroy" cd once before in 1843. Point-a-Pitre is the capital of the arrondissement of Grande ' Terre, on the Little C'ul-de-Sac, eighteen 1 miles northeast of Basse Terre. Its populatiu is about 12,000. i The Arab Sword Trick. i To my astonishment, the next who issued - forth as a performer was my Zouave acquain' ? .1 - ..1 TT i tance, who far eclipsed an tne oineru. xie ; had taken off his fez, and his long sweeping - hair was hanging wildly about him. He advanced to a brazierofburning charcoal placed - on the ground, into which incense was ; thrown, and swung his head*and arms about 1 over the rising vapor with intense violence ) for several minutes, when he removed his ) embroidered jacket and then his shirt; so . that the upper part of his body was nude, r bis head rofcking and his hair swaying in the j wind all the time. On a singal from him, . a Marabout presented him with a naked i scimitar, whereupon he kissed the fcetofthe i Marabout, and ran the sword across his own 1 tongue. Two men now came forward and 1 held the scimitar between them, when he 2 flung himself himself upon it on his bare t stomach, and in this way he was carried 3 three times round the yard amid rapturous 1 lou lous from above, When ho ceased, the i scimitar had su"k deeply into the flesh gf t his stomach, which had folded over it so that 1 it required an effort to extract the weapon A deep red welt remained but no blood s flowed. lie next stood with his bare feet on the edge of the blade, and was borne round li in like manner, standing on the weapon, s After this he luy on the ground on his back, and the scimitar was held over his stomach r~ by two men, while a third stood upon the t blade. This appeared to inflict dreadful e torture on the victim but gave intense 1 gratification to the the female spectators in i* the upper gallery, who became louder than f ever in their vociferations. There feats s must have caused him much suffering, fur at !l | the conclusion he was in a profuse pcrspivn 1 - i- :.l ? <l i i 1 tlOD, ana was laiu uiiuiB^imim Hiuvinrir'i c over for some time, after which he was supo ported into tlie house in a 6tate of apparent e exhaustion.?Lieut# ant- Coloncl C. <V. Terf /cr, M. A. Correspondence' of the Toronto Telegraph. A Singular Discovery. 1. ' . CATtoA, Angufit 21 .-^On Wednesday last, Rer. Nathaniel Wardell, Messrs. Orin Wardell (of Toronto,) and Daniel Frendenburg, were digging on the farm of the latter gentleman, which is on the banks of the Grand River, in the township of Cayuga. When they got some five or six feet below the surface a strange sight met them. Piled' in layers, one above the other, some hundred skeletons of hurotftf beings nearly perfect? around the neck of ench one being a string of beads. There was also deposited in this i pit a number of axes and skimmers made of stone. In the jaws of several skeletons were largo stono pipes?one of which Mr Orin Wardell -Hook with him to Torortto a day or two after this Golgotha was unearth ed. These skeletons are those of men of gigantic stature, some of them measurincnine , feet. Some of the thigh bones were found to be at least half a foot longer than those at present known', ai?4 one of the skulk being examined completely covered the head of an ordinary person. These skeletons are supposed to belong to those of a race q1' people anterior to the Indians, Some three years ago the hone's of a mastadon were found embedded in the earth about six miles from this spot. The jrit and its ghastly occupants are. now opeu to the view of any who may wish to make a visit tbeter. later. Dunnvjlle, August 22;?There is not the slightest doubt that the remains of a lost city are on this farm. At various times within the past years the remains of mud houses with their chimnies have been fbnud; nnil ilnr-ons of nits of a similar kind to that just "unearthed, though much snialler, in the.pla6e which have been discovered before, though the fact has not beeh made public hitherto. The remains .of a blacksmith's 6hop, containing two tons o? char-, coal and various implements, were turned up a few months ago. The farm, which consists of one hundred and. fitly acres, has been cultivated for nearly a century, and was covered with a thick growth of pine, so that it must"have been ages ago since the remains were deposited there. The skulls of the skeletons are of an enormous size, and of all manner of shapes, about half as large again as are now to bo seen. The teeth in most of them are still in a most perfect slate of preservation, though thoy soon fall out when exposed to the air. It is supposed that there must be large quantities ert gold or silver to be found in the premises, as mineral rods have invariably, when tested, pointed to a certain spot and a few yards from where the hist batch of skeletons were found, directly under the apple tree. Sonic large sheila, supposed to have been used for holding water, which were also found in the pit, were almost petrified.? There iB no doubt that wore there a scheme of exploration carried on thoroughly the result would be highly interesting. A good deal of excitement exists in the neighborhood, and many visitors call at the farm daily. The skulls and bones of the giants are fast disappearing^ being taken away by curiosity hunters. It is the intention of Mr. Fredenburg to cover the pit up very soon. The pit is ghastly in the extreme, The farm is skirted on the north by the Grand River. The pit is close to the banks, but marks are there, to show where the gold or silver treasure is supposed to be under. From the appearance of the skulls it would seem that their possessors died a violent death, as many of them were broken and deuted.? The axes are shaped like tomahawks?small but keen instruments. Tbe beads are all of stone, and of all sizes and shapes. The pipes are not unlike in shape to the cutty pipe, and several of them are engraved with dog s ceads. They have not lost their virtue for smoking. Some people profess to believe that the locality of the Fredenburg Farm was formerly an Indian burial-place, but the enormous statuo of the skeletons, and the fact that pine trees of centuries' growth covered the spot, go far to disprove the idea. A Phenomenon?Immense Swarm of Pecular Flies. A singular phenomenon was witnessed on Thursday last atNorristown, by a gentleman who was driving' on De Kalb street, near the Borough lino. He noticed a strange appearance in the air, and upon examination found it was due to an immense flight offlics of some peculiar species which had every appearance of a snow storm, the rapidity of movement being about the same as that of snowflakes in ordinary storms. The height at which the insects seemed to fly varied up to forty feet, or S# far as they could be dis tintlv distinguished. Our informant succeaed in catching a few of the flics and found them to be entirely different from any ordinary fly of this section, the bodies beingmuch after the pattern of the yellow-jacket, with a light and long sheeny wing and very small head. Their color is a dark brown with light bands. How broad the belt of this flight extends we are unable to 6ay, but for about an hour they continued to fly southward with undiminished numbers. In size rnnn-fld from that of a unnt to the larg VMv; ?? w _ est of common house-flies. They appeared to be on some great migrative intent, and the few that were in the fields appeared to have halted for rest rather than forage?Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 2(jlh. Valuable -Cattle.?Mr. Sheldon, of New York, has refused an offer, from Mr. King, of Minnesota, of 836,000 fof three heifers. On the s:unc day Mr. Sheldon wttS offered 863.000 l'ur,five cows, the choice of his herd. Short horns have uever^before in this country or elsewhere had such prices act on ihcm. An increased demand ftirthis class of stock, at enhanced prices, is anticipated. ' At a large gathering uf the Arkansas Dei mocracy at Little llock, on Thursday, a resolution was passed accepting the political situation. -ft 111 I ?UttlO. ; . ' ' J.r ' > ,. . Ottt oh the fly: Moequitoes. The flip flap waggle re the stylish Saratoga walk now. . Bethlehem of Judea has an omnibus lately started. ; | M'f' A California Chinese pugilist is felicitously styled Ah Bung. Chicago doesn't like the^mtlk ,it gets.- It prefers the udder kind: ' ; /*' A Syndicate of Cnluinbus colored men settled a financial difficdrltjr With kniVe^ '' Capt. HallYArcfcib expedition has arrived safely at. Greenland. "Great American HydtaufteHeh'' Begiilator" is the natueof an iuvbntion'of n Titus vine gemus. ; r .,,ft f}J Cl}|l Mrs. Stanton denies tjiat i 8^e [.travelled jhrough Oalilornia with one Jegon ca<;h fdde of a mule. s ' . .Art inscription upon a church bell in Milwaukee, reads : "In memory vf Mmtoie J. Hodges, weight 724 pounds^ i li ' '' Indiana has a bridegroom who paid the' minister one dollar ??r marryiug.hlm.and stabling his horse all day beside. A Detroit ^saloon has a cartoon{ representing G. Washington in the act of drinking a glass of lager beer. A man has been' sent to the lunalic asylum for a continued attempt to make a cauoe out of the bark of a dog. A gust of wind knocked over a camp meeting tent aud caused the two last atauzus of a h^mn to be omitted. M For hoarseness Grant sotnotinies tikes whiskey^ ek^ wine. Eqaiite remedies aro certainly beet for harte new. Atf. Indiana wife triad tcr make '.her husband better bred by using a rolling pin on hiui. He didn't like her mUttna. Col. Fisk. among bis. other accomplishments, seems to know something about fa ruling. He is now engaged in cutting diiwn salary on the Erie railroad! The feminine heavy swelF'of.tho period now wars her ohignon in waves that couie over the combings. This joke is of a naughty- h gal character. Minnesota has a brick layer called 'Louis Napoleon, who remarks that his pursuit runs in the family, as his imperial namesake has also had-a h'odd career.,. " 1 The Executive Committee of the American Woman s Suffrage Association hits decided to hold-the next annuaL-meeting iu I'lliiiij Wivninlier 2'2 arid ' An Irishman qnarrellingwith an Englishman, told him if he didn't hold his tongue he would break his impenetrable head and let all the brains out of bis empty skull.. Bismarck's organ, the Priutian Oro*s Gazette, says the German government ivi!!ru/t send abroad a circular giving the re1suits of tho Gastein conference, but will give ' reassurine explanations" (o any government which feel*alarmed. A Virginia colored woman named Nisli, aged twenty-three years, is the mother of seventeen children. She complains that she can't procure food cuoagh for them to Nash their teeth upon. *' /" <t: ;. Brigham Yonng's seventieth birthday arrived lately, and his wives and children gave hint a surprise party, all assembling in u hall and inviting him to dinner. The family together looked like a town meeting where universal suffrage was in vogue. In the course of an editorial on the Scott Ceuten nary, the writer quoted Scott's well known' lines: ? i?-. --.1 ?.:i,l . . }t ? l/KICUUDin, mem unu nuu, Meet norae for a poetic diihl. The compositor set it thus: Caledonia, stern and wild, Wet nurs,e for a poeticcjyhl. t Three of Grant's horses strayed abroad in Washington, .Friday, and were put in the pound. The groom of the imperil stud tried to induce the pound-master ito deliver the animals on the dead-head prtnciple, but the official was inexorable, ana the administration was mulcted in six dollars. The IForW adds: 'subscription lists at the custom house are now in order." President Grant, wearied with the importunities of the Warniouth delegation from Louisana, accorded them an interview yesterday Reporters were excluded, and his Excellency ejected one who had obtained admission, with his own bauds! I fe received tho Warmouthers very coldly, but become excited when they read the chitrges against < - * i? ?J Ji L:? I i.. hl8 DrOtnewn-jaw, auu emuijieu Ilia nuein and banged his piano in bis rage. He denied some of the accusations, but promised to send a copy of theui to the New Orleans officials and get their answer thereto. The committee left with a very huge flea in its car. It is evideut that Grant cures nothing for the threats of Govori.or ^Yarmouth and his friends. . . The Petersbnrg (Va.) Progrnx, a Hcrnocratio journal, has the following on the lion. A. JH. Stphens; " If the flood ha^becurred in the time of Mr. Alexander 11, Stephens, :1- fkut sjiifimr tm !4?l fl:IVS we veiuj ucuciii uiu^ uu,,..n _?j_ rain, he would have been seen astrjdo of the ridge-'pote of The Atlanta Sun" office holding a. faded umbrella over his head, drawing i f? hjs^diniinative legs to^keep them out of the surrounding surges,, and caJniiy.iii'liMtijr ; ten-colpmn editorial to the people of the ia>v nonf^racy;-to prove that the shower was null ahd 'woid, and the flood a matter to he vesisflfcd^ntthe ballot-box; and no doubt pen. .pie wdyld haTe been found in Georgia who woultfh^e stigmkized Noah as a 1 new departrttte,' anti have hazarded both life ahd | sou Ron the.faded umbrella and ponderous ' editorial Of poor littjlejtfr. Stephens. $ - m*:, " . /,